Everything is Transcoding

[JoshuaAJones 69]

Thank you!

When I had reinstalled Emby, I loaded the Host Path for Movies but skipped the Container Path.  Moving too fast.

 

 

New issue...

Everything seems to want to transcode for some reason.  For someone who hasn't transcoded in years, this is a weird turn.

Attached the logs from trying to play from my PC (on Edge). It took hitting play twice to get it to start. I numbered the transcode logs in the order they were created.

I have went through my settings and moved Playback from Auto to 4K-200Mbps. That eliminated the "Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit" error that I was getting but it still wants to transcode.

I have also tried playing it on:

Chrome (local IP) - Transcoded

Chrome (web address) - Transcoded

Edge (web address) - Transcoded

Phone (web) - Direct Play

NVIDIA Shield (local) - Direct Play

I know that Chrome has trouble with mkv and that probably explains those transcodes but I've never had trouble with Edge needing to transcode. In fact, as stated above, I have rarely transcoded anything in the last decade. I used to turn off the ability to transcode in my User settings for everyone. Now, I have to leave them on. Frustrating.

Any help would be appreciated.

6 ffmpeg-transcode-a781755d-5a37-4d03-99e4-f34fe44f98a2_1.txt embyserver.txt 1 ffmpeg-directstream-39d5d579-ec7e-4a27-9d09-70be8e1b5d13_1.txt 2 ffmpeg-transcode-45c09fdf-a2dc-477f-be6e-e6f908b5f9e2_1.txt 3 ffmpeg-transcode-4e64e49a-a92f-4134-ac03-f74c29f46931_1.txt 4 ffmpeg-directstream-3debb9a9-8877-4972-b7e9-9e211f683654_1.txt 5 ffmpeg-transcode-12abad1e-6c01-4e7d-b50e-a943e06049aa_1.txt

[JoshuaAJones 69]

Also, apologies... I realize that I should have started a new issue.

[Luke 42359]

@JoshuaAJonesdid you explore the stats feature in the video player to learn why transcoding is happening?

[JoshuaAJones 69]

When I first hit Play, it says Direct Play but does not stay there. It starts transcoding (see pic). Nerd stat pic also there.

It does it for both local and web address playbacks on Edge.

Chrome is awful and hates mkv so I expect it to transcode.

Most of the other clients Direct Play most of the time... Shield, Samsung, LG, Hisense, FireTV

Just trying to get back to never transcoding.

I thought that it might be a networking issue, as I had quite the time connecting to the server yesterday, while my ISP was broken.  Everything was super slow.

Connection took multiple tries. Sometimes, I had to manually input the IP address.

Once on the Home screen, it would play (with a delay), there would be multiple times of random pausing for variable lengths of time (I was thinking maybe an IO problem), and, once an episode completed, the green checkmark would occasionally appear (sometimes that page did not update at all).

I could be having new server woes. Not sure.

I am trying to get more input from viewers to share and track down a culprit.

1 - ffmpeg-remux-5c1fa27d-a616-468f-b151-be7f388650ed_1.txt 2 - ffmpeg-transcode-95110e3d-d9fc-4477-b7e2-b90e28c7dd36_1.txt

[Luke 42359]

Hi, it starts by direct playing, then the browser video player reports a decoding error of some sort, and so we automatically switch to transcoding to ensure successful playback.

By error I mean the browser video player has trouble playing the file. 

Does this answer your question?

[XAFAfterShock 0]

Just to emphasize!! Browsers in general suck for using emby, I recommend using the emby for windows app vs watching movies using a browser.